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Submission + - Nexus 4 demand crashes Google Play Servers, sold out in 25 minutes. (phonearena.com)

Submitted by figleaf on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @05:54PM

figleaf writes: The must awaited Nexus 4 went on sale for US customers on Nov 13 at 8:36 AM PST. Unfortunately, the launch was anything but smooth. Several eager buyers were unable to procure the coveted device because of various server errors. Many users who were able to add the Nexus 4 to the shopping cart found that they could not complete their transaction. Even the customer service representatives were unable to access the internal servers during the time when the Nexus 4 was on sale. 25 minutes after Nexus 4 went on sale both the 8GB and 16GB versions were sold out.

Submission + - AMD hires bank to explore sale options (reuters.com)

Submitted by Dainsanefh on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @05:14PM

Dainsanefh writes: Advanced Micro Devices has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co to explore options, which could include a potential sale, as the chipmaker struggles to find a role in an industry increasingly focused on mobile and away from traditional PCs, according to three sources familiar with the situation.

Submission + - Intel's 60-core chip ships; elites like Hawking get it first (cnet.com)

Submitted by

kenekaplan

on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @02:12PM

kenekaplan writes: "Intel's first chip to integrate 60 processor cores is for high-performance computing applications — with a high-end price to match, reports Brooke Crothers at CNET."

Comment Re:Only a little evil (Score 1) 305

by Utopia on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @01:20PM (#40530575) Attached to: Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports

If you look at the standard compliance of the browsers in the Windows '98 era, IE had better CSS support and a much compliance support for w3c recommendations than the offering that Netscape had.

On top of that I loved Netscape 3, but Netscape 4 was a bloated piece of crap.

Comment Pay annual fees to develop for my own phone. (Score 1) 1027

by Utopia on Thursday June 14, 2012 @01:21PM (#40324553) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone?

Microsoft copies Apple's idea and makes it difficult to develop apps for your own use.
Why should I pay $99 / year if all the apps that I develop are for own and family use?
I would rather buy a nexus device in the absence of a similar option from Microsoft.

Comment Dryad (Score 1) 67

by Utopia on Thursday October 13, 2011 @12:31PM (#37703006) Attached to: Microsoft Goes In For Hadoop

Microsoft has a equivalent to Hadoop known as Dryad.
They should have open-sourced Dryad a long time ago.

I wonder what is going to happen to Dryad with this focus on Hadoop.

Comment Re:Next bid? (Score 1) 213

by Utopia on Saturday July 02, 2011 @12:22PM (#36641948) Attached to: Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents

or Levy's constant 3.275822918 billion

Comment IPV7 so passé (Score 1) 108

by Utopia on Friday February 18, 2011 @05:08PM (#35248482) Attached to: Vint Cerf Says No To IPv7, Yes To InterPlanetary Web

... IPV9 already around. ;)

Comment Lies, lies and more lies! (Score 1) 370

by Utopia on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @02:22PM (#35140684) Attached to: Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation

Redmond doesn't have a Walmart....

Comment Are popular searches also copied? (Score 1) 380

by Utopia on Saturday February 05, 2011 @03:11AM (#35109792) Attached to: Google's Search Copying Accusation Called 'Silly'

If its just the click result for some weird search words then I would say Microsoft was being very clever.

If Microsoft is exclusively using Google's click-through data for the all the popular search words then Microsoft is cheating.

Comment Memory Leak (Score 5, Informative) 535

by Utopia on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @01:20PM (#35080756) Attached to: Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video

Microsoft's H.264 addon for Firefox has a bad memory leak.
See http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/971988-memory-leak-in-html5-extension-for-windows-media-player-firefox-add-on/

So this might be bad for Chrome.

Comment Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? (Score 1) 299

by Utopia on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:53PM (#33606050) Attached to: Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi

Replied to wrong thread! Sorry.

Comment Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? (Score 0, Flamebait) 299

by Utopia on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:18PM (#33605758) Attached to: Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi

Not quite true. See Bellard's formula and Bailey's formula on which it is based.

Comment Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (Score 2, Interesting) 299

by Utopia on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:05PM (#33605650) Attached to: Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi

Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula lets you calculate the n-th digit of pi without calculating the n-1 digits.

I wonder what formula was used to calculate the digit here.

Submission + - Genital Herpes Pictures (youtube.com)

Submitted by pharaoh412 on Monday July 05, 2010 @03:26AM

pharaoh412 writes: Use genital herpes pictures to help determine if you have contracted herpes. Viewing genital herpes pictures of benefit to you at during early stages herpes. The doctor may also use genital herpes pictures to show you some symptoms.

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